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Backache

noun

An ache localized in the back.

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"Backache" Quotes from Famous Books

... became hard; they became quick and accurate, and Nance got used to the heat and the smell, and she almost got used to the backache. It was sitting still and being silent that hurt her more than anything else. Mr. Lavinski did not encourage conversation,—it distracted the workers,—and Nance's exuberance, which at first found vent ...

— Calvary Alley • Alice Hegan Rice

... it surely was! On one side of the camp, between the camping-ground, which Uncle Eb had cleared with many a backache, and the woods, was a narrow strip covered with a stunted, prickly growth of wild raspberry bushes and tiny cherry-trees. These had sprung up after the pines had been cut down, as soon as the sun peeped ...

— Camp and Trail - A Story of the Maine Woods • Isabel Hornibrook

Words linked to "Backache" : aching, lumbar pain, ache, lumbago